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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Droving sheep on an unsealed road

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Droving sheep on an unsealed road

The rural districts of Hawke’s Bay are serviced by many unsealed roads. Nearly half the network of roads maintained by the Central Hawke’s Bay District Council remained unsealed in 2009. Dusty scenes like this one near Pākōwhai in the 1920s were still common.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Samuel Heath Head Collection (PA-Group-00261)

Reference: 1/1-007287; G

by Samuel Heath Head

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Transport and infrastructure, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23922/droving-sheep-on-an-unsealed-road (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.